Moses Montefiore Academy in Chicago is a specialist therapeutic school for the city’s most at-risk students. Children who come to the academy have often been expelled from other public schools, and many come from abusive or disruptive households.
In this Peabody Award winning and Emmy nominated documentary series, VICE is given unprecedented access to the halls of Montefiore, meeting the students, parents and teachers fighting tirelessly to keep the school alive and the kids out of prison.
This video provides an overview of the support and services provided for youth in custody at the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections St. Anthony, Idaho facility.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) -- A new group is joinng the fight against a proposed juvenile detention center in Isle of Wight County saying they are concerned the project isn't "closer" to their backyard.
Prison reform is a major topic within the national political conversation. For many incarcerated people, the path to jail begins in the teen years; at any given time, roughly 50,000 young people are held in juvenile prisons. Johnnie McDaniels, former executive director of the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center, shares a brief but spectacular take on the "revolving door" of juvenile corrections.
